The Space Review
In the current issue of The Space Review, three articles of interst. Jeff Foust looks at what the "elder statesmen" of NASA might be able to bring to the VSE. Jeff Foust then reviews To the End of the Solar System, now available both more widely and more cheaply than before. And, Dwayne A. Day looks at an anime series set in the near future.
Monday, April 21, 2008
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Down Among the Dead Men
Transhuman; edited by Mark L. Van Name and T.K.F. Weisskopf (Baen Books, 2007, ISBN 978-14165-5523-0; cover by Dave Sealy).
(Two background items: Vernor Vinge's now-classic paper on the Singularity. I would also recommend a look at Accelerando by Charles Stross, as the themes explored in that book often dovetail nicely with the themes explored in these stories...or diverge dramatically. Either way, you can get it for free at that link.)
(Several stories have introductions and/or afterwords, this bumps up the overall story count.)
Firewall (David D. Levine): An isolated base on the Moon is infiltrated by the singularity event. Can they believe what they are being told about life being better after the Singularity?
Reunion (Mark L. Van Name): A computer programmer who thinks who is a downloaded program. Is he? Or is he one of many who are suffering from similar delusions? His quest for identity takes him to an series of high school reunions and the realization that maybe what he is does not matter as much as who he is and how he acts.
The Guardian (Paul Chafe): The best story in the collection (so far). A policeman is uploaded into a security system after his death. As he becomes better and better at "his" job, more capabilities are added. Chafe subtly works this in by increasing the detail of the writing, increasing the tempo of the plot. And, an unexpected ending (not where I thought it was going to go, to be sure).
Being Human (Wen Spencer): Spencer takes the approach that the Singularlity event will not quite be "the rapture of the nerds", with everybody ending up in some computerized wonderland. Instead, people will be digitized as they die. This is quite a creepy little tale, reminding me of Ray Bradbury's idyllic towns in Something Wicked This Way Comes or The Martian Chronicles. Idyllic with dark undertones, that is.
Made up of: Introduction (Mark L. Van Name); Firewall (David D. Levine); Reunion (Mark L. Van Name) (extensive afterword); The Guardian (Paul Chafe) (extensive afterword); Being Human (Wen Spencer) (extensive afterword); In Command (John Lampshead); G@vin45 (Daniel M. Hoyt); Home for the Holidays (Ester M. Friesner); Soul Sprinter (Wil McCarthy); Whom the Gods Love (Sarah A. Hoyt); Wetware 2.0 (Dave Freer); Escape (James P. Hogan); About the Contributors.
Counts as 8 entries in the 2008 Year in Shorts.
Transhuman; edited by Mark L. Van Name and T.K.F. Weisskopf (Baen Books, 2007, ISBN 978-14165-5523-0; cover by Dave Sealy).
(Two background items: Vernor Vinge's now-classic paper on the Singularity. I would also recommend a look at Accelerando by Charles Stross, as the themes explored in that book often dovetail nicely with the themes explored in these stories...or diverge dramatically. Either way, you can get it for free at that link.)
(Several stories have introductions and/or afterwords, this bumps up the overall story count.)
Firewall (David D. Levine): An isolated base on the Moon is infiltrated by the singularity event. Can they believe what they are being told about life being better after the Singularity?
Reunion (Mark L. Van Name): A computer programmer who thinks who is a downloaded program. Is he? Or is he one of many who are suffering from similar delusions? His quest for identity takes him to an series of high school reunions and the realization that maybe what he is does not matter as much as who he is and how he acts.
The Guardian (Paul Chafe): The best story in the collection (so far). A policeman is uploaded into a security system after his death. As he becomes better and better at "his" job, more capabilities are added. Chafe subtly works this in by increasing the detail of the writing, increasing the tempo of the plot. And, an unexpected ending (not where I thought it was going to go, to be sure).
Being Human (Wen Spencer): Spencer takes the approach that the Singularlity event will not quite be "the rapture of the nerds", with everybody ending up in some computerized wonderland. Instead, people will be digitized as they die. This is quite a creepy little tale, reminding me of Ray Bradbury's idyllic towns in Something Wicked This Way Comes or The Martian Chronicles. Idyllic with dark undertones, that is.
Made up of: Introduction (Mark L. Van Name); Firewall (David D. Levine); Reunion (Mark L. Van Name) (extensive afterword); The Guardian (Paul Chafe) (extensive afterword); Being Human (Wen Spencer) (extensive afterword); In Command (John Lampshead); G@vin45 (Daniel M. Hoyt); Home for the Holidays (Ester M. Friesner); Soul Sprinter (Wil McCarthy); Whom the Gods Love (Sarah A. Hoyt); Wetware 2.0 (Dave Freer); Escape (James P. Hogan); About the Contributors.
Counts as 8 entries in the 2008 Year in Shorts.
Shuffle Mania
Following up on this posting, here's what has been on the playlist to date (future entries will only be for a single month!).
Unless I'm on an extended drive, I've been using the "shuffle" feature more on the iPod. After a couple of weeks of doing this, I changed the contents to remove the classical pieces that I had loaded. Too many of them are linked, at least in my mind, so listening to them as an occasional random bit did not work.
I'm still puzzled by how the iPod chooses songs in shuffle mode. On occasion, two songs by one artist will play back-to-back. One day I heard about a dozen songs on the commute and exactly half of them were all by Sting. Other albums have not been touched at all during three months. Very weird.
(What’s amazing to look at the list is not so much as how much music I listened too...but how much music is still in the collection that I have not gotten to!)
(Does not include audiobooks, podcasts and the like.)
On to the selections. In some cases the whole album was heard, in other cases I'll still be hearing bits and pieces in the future.
A Produce:
Land of a Thousand Trances
A Smooth Surface
I first heard tracks by A Produce on the show Hearts of Space. I really need to get whatever other albums have come out, this is still astounding stuff, to me.
Tori Amos:
Little Earthquakes
Laurie Anderson:
Life on a String
Mr. Heartbreak
Art of Noise:
The Best of The Art of Noise
The Seduction of Claude Debussy
Another group I have neglected in purchases, considering how many times I have listened to these two albums!
The B-52’s:
Time Capsule (Songs for a Future Generation)
Pretty much this album gets it all by The B-52's.
Johann Sebastian Bach:
The Brandenburg Concertos (2 CD’s)
The Cello Suites (Volume 2)
Coffee Cantata & Peasant Cantata
The Complete Keyboard Works (Volume 10)
The Complete Keyboard Works (Volume 13)
As much Bach as I have, I still feel like I've only scratched the surface!
The Bangles:
Greatest Hits
The Beatles:
Abbey Road
A Hard Day’s Night
The Beatles (White Album) (2 CD's)
Rubber Soul
Luigi Boccherini:
Cello Concertos, Volume 2, Nos. 5-8
David Bowie:
ChangesBowie
Fame 90
Maire Brennan:
Maire
Jackson Browne:
The Pretender
Harold Budd:
Lovely Thunder
The Pearl (with Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois)
Through the Hill (with Andy Partridge)
With or without Eno, Budd is one interesting composer.
Kate Bush:
Aerial: A Sky of Honey
The Dreaming
Hounds of Love
The Kick Inside
Lionheart
Never for Ever
The Red Shoes
The Sensual World
The Whole Story
One of my all-time favorites. Doesn't create fast enough, though.
The Byrds:
Greatest Hits
David Byrne:
The Catherine Wheel
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (with Brian Eno)
Sean Callery:
24: Season 1 (soundtrack)
24: Seasons 4 & 5 (soundtrack)
Wendy Carlos:
Beauty in the Beast
Digital Moonscapes
Rediscovering Lost Scores, Volume 1 (soundtrack)
Rediscovering Lost Scores, Volume 2 (soundtrack)
Tales of Heaven and Hell
The Clash:
Combat Rock
London Calling
Dire Straits:
Brothers in Arms
Making Movies
Electric Light Orchestra:
Face the Music
Brian Eno:
The Shutov Assembly
Apollo: Atmosphers & Soundtracks (with Roger Eno & Daniel Lanois)
Here Come the Warm Jets
Music for Films
Nerve Net
Spinner (with Jah Wobble)
Eno is one of my all-time favorites.
Roger Eno:
The Familiar (with Kate St. John)
The Flatlands
Lost in Translation
Voices
His brother ain't half bad, either.
Enya:
A Day Without Rain
The Memory of Trees
Shepherd Moons
Watermark
Eurythmics:
Greatest Hits
Donald Fagen:
Kamakiriad
The Nightfly
Richard Feynman:
The Feynman Tapes, Volume 1
The Feynman Tapes, Volume 2
Safecracker Suite
Tuva Talk
A combination of music and dialogue recorded by one of Feynman's friends. Some really funny stuff in here!
Fleetwood Mac:
Fleetwood Mac
Rumours
Tango in the Night
Tusk
Peter Gabriel:
Secret World Live (2 CD’s)
Us
Genesis:
ABACAB
Duke
Invisible Touch
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
We Can’t Dance
Lisa Gerrard:
The Mirror Pool
Richard Gibbs:
Battlestar Galactica (Pilot)
Philip Glass:
Dracula
Glassworks
Kundun (soundtrack)
Philip on Film: Filmworks by Philip Glass (boxed set)
Solo Piano
Songs from Liquid Days
Glass is another composer that has done so much that I always feel like I am only scratching the surface.
Global Communications:
76:14
As far as I know, a one-album wonder. But what a wonder!
Eliot Goldenthal and Others:
Heat (soundtrack)
Like several of the soundtracks listed here (e.g., Blackhawk Down), something that I listen to over and over again.
Joel Goldsmith:
Stargate SG-1 (Music from the Original Television Series) (soundtrack)
Herbie Hancock:
Future Shock
George Harrison:
Cloud Nine
M.C. Hawking:
E=MC Hawking
Heart:
Little Queen
Joe Hisaishi:
Spirited Away (soundtrack)
Michael Hoenig:
Departure from the Northern Wasteland
Another interesting atmospheric effort. Something I visit at least yearly.
Gustav Holst:
The Planets Suite
James Horner:
A Beautiful Mind (soundtrack)
Sneakers (soundtrack)
Two more soundtracks that I revisit on a constant basis.
Indigo Girls:
Nomads Indians Saints
Jade Warrior:
Elements (2 CD’s)
I usually jokingly call this "Japanese jazz". This set is made up of four albums. The group seemed to hit a bumpy spot at one point, anything out after these four albums just isn't as good.
Jean Michel Jarre:
Chronologie
Equinoxe
Oxygene
King Crimson:
The Abbreviated King Crimson (a.k.a., Heartbeat)
Absent Lovers (Live in Montreal, 1984) (2 CD's)
THRAK
Three of a Perfect Pair
The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson (two boxed sets)
VROOM
Good stuff. Sometimes hard to listen to, in places, but good stuff.
Mark Knopfler:
All the Roadrunning (with Emmylou Harris)
Golden Heart
Neck and Neck (with Chet Atkins)
Screenplaying
With or without Dire Straits, one of my favorites.
David Lanz:
Cristofori’s Dream
Laraaji:
Ambient Three: Day of Radiance
Flow Goes the Universe
Another discovery by Brian Eno. Good mediations.
Ray Lynch:
Deep Breakfast
Paul McCartney:
Band on the Run (with Wings)
Bear McCreary:
Battlestar Galactica, Season 1
Battlestar Galactica, Season 2
Battlestar Galactica, Season 3
Loreena McKennitt:
The Mask and the Mirror
Sarah McLachlan:
Fumbling Towards Ectasy
Surfacing
Pat Metheny:
Under Missouri Skies (with Charlie Haden)
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (with Lyle Mays)
The first is one of my all-time favorites. Great music for those summer days after several hours of lawn work or fence painting, when you have a couple of cold ones.
The Patti Smith Group:
Horses
Giorgio Moroder:
Cat People (soundtrack)
Michael Nyman:
The Piano (soundtrack)
The Piano Concerto & MGV
Robert Palmer:
Heavy Nova
Tom Petty:
Full Moon Fever
Playback (boxed set)
She’s the One (soundtrack) (with The Heartbreakers)
The Police:
Regatta de Blanc
R.E.M. :
Green
Out of Time
Graeme Revell:
Frank Herbert’s Dune (soundtrack)
Robert Rich:
Gaudi
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov:
The Best of Rimsky-Korsakov
Steve Roach:
Body Electric (with Vir Unis)
Dreaming...Now, Then: A Retrospective (A Retrospective, 1982-1987) (2 CD's)
Light Fantastic
Kiva (with Michael Stearns & Ron Sunsinger)
Rich and Roach are two artists that I discovered via the radio show Hearts of Space. Their albums are rich, complex, strange. And they are both prolific...lots more to buy!
The Robert Fripp String Quartet:
The Bridge Between
Todd Rundgren:
Faithful
Something/Anything (2 CD's)
Klaus Schulze:
Trancefer
Robert Schroeder:
Brain Voyager
Harmonic Ascendant
Andres Segovia:
The Segovia Collection (boxed set)
Paul Simon:
Negotiations and Love Songs (1971-1986) (2 CD’s)
The Rhythms of the Saints
Surprise
You’re the One
Patti Smith:
Gone Again
Mark Snow:
Songs in the Key of X (soundtrack)
The Truth and the Light (Music from the X Files) (soundtrack)
The second is a mixture of music from the show and dialogue snippets. You pretty much get the thrust of the first several seasons from this CD!
Software:
Chip Meditation, Part 1
Chip Mediation, Part 2
Electronic Universe, Part 1
Electronic Universe, Part 2
Modesty Blaze
Past Present Future, Part 1
Past Present Future, Part 2
A group that never quite (in the US) achieved the fame that Tangerine Dream did. The collections have a lot of good stuff on them, the non-collections vary widely in quality.
Fernando Sor:
Guitar Duets (Complete) (Volume 1)
Guitar Duets (Complete) (Volume 2)
Guitar Music
Michael Stearns & Ron Sunsinger:
Singing Stones
Steely Dan:
Aja
Can’t Buy a Thrill
Countdown to Ecstasy
Gaucho
Katy Lied
Pretzel Logic
The Royal Scam
Two Against Nature
Another all-time favorite.
Leith Stevens:
Destination Moon (soundtrack)
A classic soundtrack of a classic movie.
Sting:
Brand New Day
The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Fields of Gold
Mercury Falling
Nothing Like the Sun
The Soul Cages
Ten Summoner’s Tales
David Sylvian:
Blemish
Damage: Live in London, December 1983 (with Robert Fripp)
Dead Bees on a Cake
Everything and Nothing (2 CD's)
Gone to Earth
Secrets of the Beehive
Recommended by a friend. I'm glad he did.
Synergy:
Games
The Jupiter Menace
Talking Heads:
77
Fear of Music
Little Creatures
Naked
The Name of This Band is Talking Heads (2 CD's)
Remain in Light
Sand in the Vaseline (2 CD's)
True Stories
Another recommendation (years ago) of a friend.
Tangerine Dream:
220 Volt Live
Encores
Exit
Force Majeure
Hyberborea
The Keep (soundtrack)
Legend (soundtrack)
Lily on the Beach
Livemiles
Logos
Melrose
Miracle Mile (soundtrack)
Optical Race
The Park is Mine (soundtrack)
Pergamon (Live at the Palast Der Republik, GDR) (2 CD's)
Poland: The Warsaw Concert (2 CD’s)
Risky Business (soundtrack)
Rockoon
Tangram
Thief (soundtrack)
Turn of the Tides
Tyranny of Beauty
Tyger
Underwater Sunlight
White Eagle
A band that has varied widely in my interest over the years. Their best efforts, for me, were in the 1970's and early 1980's, as well as several soundtrack albums. Once the group seemed to be run only by the father and son...I stopped buying their stuff.
Peter Tchaikovsky & Ludwig van Beethoven:
1812 Overture & Wellington’s Victory
10,000 Maniacs:
Blind Man's Zoo
Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982-1983
In My Tribe
Love Among the Ruins
MTV Unplugged
Our Time in Eden
The Wishing Chair
Fiorella Terenzi:
Music from the Galaxies
Tomita:
Kosmos
The Planets (Holst)
Snowflakes are Dancing (Debussy)
Brian Tyler:
Frank Herbert’s The Children of Dune (soundtrack)
U2:
Achtung Baby
Joshua Tree
Pop
Rattle & Hum
The Unforgettable Fire
Zooropa
Utopia:
Oops! Wrong Planet!
RA
Swing to the Right
Vangelis:
Blade Runner (soundtrack)
Direct
1492: The Conquest of Paradise (soundtrack)
Various/Collection:
Ambient (A Brief History of Ambient) (2 CD’s)
Forrest Gump (soundtrack) (2 CD’s)
The Big Chill (soundtrack)
Celestial Journey 2
Celtic Twilight
Cruisers 1.0
Gettysburg (soundtrack) (Randy Edelman and others)
Guitar Concertos
Hearts of Space: Universe 3
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World (sountrack) (Davies & Gordon & Tognetti and others)
MBNT (A Recollection of Proto-Ambient from Hearts of Space)
Miramar Collection 1
More Songs from Gettysburg (soundtrack) Randy Edelman and others)
Musical Evenings in the Captain’s Cabin: Duos for Violin and Cello
Musical Evenings with the Captain, Volume 1
Musical Evenings with the Captain, Volume 2
The Music of Cosmos (soundtrack) (2 CD’s)
O Brother, Where Art Thou (soundtrack)
Roast Beef of Old England
Starflight 1
The Sounds of Murphy Brown (soundtrack)
Synthesizer
Unidentified Floating Ambience
Universe Sampler 92
Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick
Heitor Villa-Lobos:
Complete Music for Solo Guitar
Bill Whelan:
Riverdance (soundtrack)
The Who:
Tommy (2 CD’s)
John Williams:
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
Mason Williams and Mannheim Steamroller:
Classical Gas
George Winston:
Forest
Linus & Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi
Plains
Remembrance
Winter into Spring
Steve Winwood:
Arc of a Diver
Back in the High Life
Junction Seven
XTC:
The Big Express
Black Sea
Drums and Wires
English Settlement
Mummer
Nonsuch
Oranges & Lemons
Rag & Bone Buffet
Skylarking
A college discovery that I go back to again and again.
Yes:
90215
The Ladder
Magnification (2 CD’s)
Symphonic Music of Yes
Tales from Topographic Oceans (2 CD’s)
The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection (boxed set)
Union
Out there they are. Strange they are. But one of the greats.
Hans Zimmer:
Blackhawk Down (soundtrack) (with others)
One of my all-time favorite albums. I bought it before I saw the movie, loved it just for the music. After seeing the movie, I love it for the connections with the movie as well.
Following up on this posting, here's what has been on the playlist to date (future entries will only be for a single month!).
Unless I'm on an extended drive, I've been using the "shuffle" feature more on the iPod. After a couple of weeks of doing this, I changed the contents to remove the classical pieces that I had loaded. Too many of them are linked, at least in my mind, so listening to them as an occasional random bit did not work.
I'm still puzzled by how the iPod chooses songs in shuffle mode. On occasion, two songs by one artist will play back-to-back. One day I heard about a dozen songs on the commute and exactly half of them were all by Sting. Other albums have not been touched at all during three months. Very weird.
(What’s amazing to look at the list is not so much as how much music I listened too...but how much music is still in the collection that I have not gotten to!)
(Does not include audiobooks, podcasts and the like.)
On to the selections. In some cases the whole album was heard, in other cases I'll still be hearing bits and pieces in the future.
A Produce:
Land of a Thousand Trances
A Smooth Surface
I first heard tracks by A Produce on the show Hearts of Space. I really need to get whatever other albums have come out, this is still astounding stuff, to me.
Tori Amos:
Little Earthquakes
Laurie Anderson:
Life on a String
Mr. Heartbreak
Art of Noise:
The Best of The Art of Noise
The Seduction of Claude Debussy
Another group I have neglected in purchases, considering how many times I have listened to these two albums!
The B-52’s:
Time Capsule (Songs for a Future Generation)
Pretty much this album gets it all by The B-52's.
Johann Sebastian Bach:
The Brandenburg Concertos (2 CD’s)
The Cello Suites (Volume 2)
Coffee Cantata & Peasant Cantata
The Complete Keyboard Works (Volume 10)
The Complete Keyboard Works (Volume 13)
As much Bach as I have, I still feel like I've only scratched the surface!
The Bangles:
Greatest Hits
The Beatles:
Abbey Road
A Hard Day’s Night
The Beatles (White Album) (2 CD's)
Rubber Soul
Luigi Boccherini:
Cello Concertos, Volume 2, Nos. 5-8
David Bowie:
ChangesBowie
Fame 90
Maire Brennan:
Maire
Jackson Browne:
The Pretender
Harold Budd:
Lovely Thunder
The Pearl (with Brian Eno & Daniel Lanois)
Through the Hill (with Andy Partridge)
With or without Eno, Budd is one interesting composer.
Kate Bush:
Aerial: A Sky of Honey
The Dreaming
Hounds of Love
The Kick Inside
Lionheart
Never for Ever
The Red Shoes
The Sensual World
The Whole Story
One of my all-time favorites. Doesn't create fast enough, though.
The Byrds:
Greatest Hits
David Byrne:
The Catherine Wheel
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (with Brian Eno)
Sean Callery:
24: Season 1 (soundtrack)
24: Seasons 4 & 5 (soundtrack)
Wendy Carlos:
Beauty in the Beast
Digital Moonscapes
Rediscovering Lost Scores, Volume 1 (soundtrack)
Rediscovering Lost Scores, Volume 2 (soundtrack)
Tales of Heaven and Hell
The Clash:
Combat Rock
London Calling
Dire Straits:
Brothers in Arms
Making Movies
Electric Light Orchestra:
Face the Music
Brian Eno:
The Shutov Assembly
Apollo: Atmosphers & Soundtracks (with Roger Eno & Daniel Lanois)
Here Come the Warm Jets
Music for Films
Nerve Net
Spinner (with Jah Wobble)
Eno is one of my all-time favorites.
Roger Eno:
The Familiar (with Kate St. John)
The Flatlands
Lost in Translation
Voices
His brother ain't half bad, either.
Enya:
A Day Without Rain
The Memory of Trees
Shepherd Moons
Watermark
Eurythmics:
Greatest Hits
Donald Fagen:
Kamakiriad
The Nightfly
Richard Feynman:
The Feynman Tapes, Volume 1
The Feynman Tapes, Volume 2
Safecracker Suite
Tuva Talk
A combination of music and dialogue recorded by one of Feynman's friends. Some really funny stuff in here!
Fleetwood Mac:
Fleetwood Mac
Rumours
Tango in the Night
Tusk
Peter Gabriel:
Secret World Live (2 CD’s)
Us
Genesis:
ABACAB
Duke
Invisible Touch
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
We Can’t Dance
Lisa Gerrard:
The Mirror Pool
Richard Gibbs:
Battlestar Galactica (Pilot)
Philip Glass:
Dracula
Glassworks
Kundun (soundtrack)
Philip on Film: Filmworks by Philip Glass (boxed set)
Solo Piano
Songs from Liquid Days
Glass is another composer that has done so much that I always feel like I am only scratching the surface.
Global Communications:
76:14
As far as I know, a one-album wonder. But what a wonder!
Eliot Goldenthal and Others:
Heat (soundtrack)
Like several of the soundtracks listed here (e.g., Blackhawk Down), something that I listen to over and over again.
Joel Goldsmith:
Stargate SG-1 (Music from the Original Television Series) (soundtrack)
Herbie Hancock:
Future Shock
George Harrison:
Cloud Nine
M.C. Hawking:
E=MC Hawking
Heart:
Little Queen
Joe Hisaishi:
Spirited Away (soundtrack)
Michael Hoenig:
Departure from the Northern Wasteland
Another interesting atmospheric effort. Something I visit at least yearly.
Gustav Holst:
The Planets Suite
James Horner:
A Beautiful Mind (soundtrack)
Sneakers (soundtrack)
Two more soundtracks that I revisit on a constant basis.
Indigo Girls:
Nomads Indians Saints
Jade Warrior:
Elements (2 CD’s)
I usually jokingly call this "Japanese jazz". This set is made up of four albums. The group seemed to hit a bumpy spot at one point, anything out after these four albums just isn't as good.
Jean Michel Jarre:
Chronologie
Equinoxe
Oxygene
King Crimson:
The Abbreviated King Crimson (a.k.a., Heartbeat)
Absent Lovers (Live in Montreal, 1984) (2 CD's)
THRAK
Three of a Perfect Pair
The 21st Century Guide to King Crimson (two boxed sets)
VROOM
Good stuff. Sometimes hard to listen to, in places, but good stuff.
Mark Knopfler:
All the Roadrunning (with Emmylou Harris)
Golden Heart
Neck and Neck (with Chet Atkins)
Screenplaying
With or without Dire Straits, one of my favorites.
David Lanz:
Cristofori’s Dream
Laraaji:
Ambient Three: Day of Radiance
Flow Goes the Universe
Another discovery by Brian Eno. Good mediations.
Ray Lynch:
Deep Breakfast
Paul McCartney:
Band on the Run (with Wings)
Bear McCreary:
Battlestar Galactica, Season 1
Battlestar Galactica, Season 2
Battlestar Galactica, Season 3
Loreena McKennitt:
The Mask and the Mirror
Sarah McLachlan:
Fumbling Towards Ectasy
Surfacing
Pat Metheny:
Under Missouri Skies (with Charlie Haden)
As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (with Lyle Mays)
The first is one of my all-time favorites. Great music for those summer days after several hours of lawn work or fence painting, when you have a couple of cold ones.
The Patti Smith Group:
Horses
Giorgio Moroder:
Cat People (soundtrack)
Michael Nyman:
The Piano (soundtrack)
The Piano Concerto & MGV
Robert Palmer:
Heavy Nova
Tom Petty:
Full Moon Fever
Playback (boxed set)
She’s the One (soundtrack) (with The Heartbreakers)
The Police:
Regatta de Blanc
R.E.M. :
Green
Out of Time
Graeme Revell:
Frank Herbert’s Dune (soundtrack)
Robert Rich:
Gaudi
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov:
The Best of Rimsky-Korsakov
Steve Roach:
Body Electric (with Vir Unis)
Dreaming...Now, Then: A Retrospective (A Retrospective, 1982-1987) (2 CD's)
Light Fantastic
Kiva (with Michael Stearns & Ron Sunsinger)
Rich and Roach are two artists that I discovered via the radio show Hearts of Space. Their albums are rich, complex, strange. And they are both prolific...lots more to buy!
The Robert Fripp String Quartet:
The Bridge Between
Todd Rundgren:
Faithful
Something/Anything (2 CD's)
Klaus Schulze:
Trancefer
Robert Schroeder:
Brain Voyager
Harmonic Ascendant
Andres Segovia:
The Segovia Collection (boxed set)
Paul Simon:
Negotiations and Love Songs (1971-1986) (2 CD’s)
The Rhythms of the Saints
Surprise
You’re the One
Patti Smith:
Gone Again
Mark Snow:
Songs in the Key of X (soundtrack)
The Truth and the Light (Music from the X Files) (soundtrack)
The second is a mixture of music from the show and dialogue snippets. You pretty much get the thrust of the first several seasons from this CD!
Software:
Chip Meditation, Part 1
Chip Mediation, Part 2
Electronic Universe, Part 1
Electronic Universe, Part 2
Modesty Blaze
Past Present Future, Part 1
Past Present Future, Part 2
A group that never quite (in the US) achieved the fame that Tangerine Dream did. The collections have a lot of good stuff on them, the non-collections vary widely in quality.
Fernando Sor:
Guitar Duets (Complete) (Volume 1)
Guitar Duets (Complete) (Volume 2)
Guitar Music
Michael Stearns & Ron Sunsinger:
Singing Stones
Steely Dan:
Aja
Can’t Buy a Thrill
Countdown to Ecstasy
Gaucho
Katy Lied
Pretzel Logic
The Royal Scam
Two Against Nature
Another all-time favorite.
Leith Stevens:
Destination Moon (soundtrack)
A classic soundtrack of a classic movie.
Sting:
Brand New Day
The Dream of the Blue Turtles
Fields of Gold
Mercury Falling
Nothing Like the Sun
The Soul Cages
Ten Summoner’s Tales
David Sylvian:
Blemish
Damage: Live in London, December 1983 (with Robert Fripp)
Dead Bees on a Cake
Everything and Nothing (2 CD's)
Gone to Earth
Secrets of the Beehive
Recommended by a friend. I'm glad he did.
Synergy:
Games
The Jupiter Menace
Talking Heads:
77
Fear of Music
Little Creatures
Naked
The Name of This Band is Talking Heads (2 CD's)
Remain in Light
Sand in the Vaseline (2 CD's)
True Stories
Another recommendation (years ago) of a friend.
Tangerine Dream:
220 Volt Live
Encores
Exit
Force Majeure
Hyberborea
The Keep (soundtrack)
Legend (soundtrack)
Lily on the Beach
Livemiles
Logos
Melrose
Miracle Mile (soundtrack)
Optical Race
The Park is Mine (soundtrack)
Pergamon (Live at the Palast Der Republik, GDR) (2 CD's)
Poland: The Warsaw Concert (2 CD’s)
Risky Business (soundtrack)
Rockoon
Tangram
Thief (soundtrack)
Turn of the Tides
Tyranny of Beauty
Tyger
Underwater Sunlight
White Eagle
A band that has varied widely in my interest over the years. Their best efforts, for me, were in the 1970's and early 1980's, as well as several soundtrack albums. Once the group seemed to be run only by the father and son...I stopped buying their stuff.
Peter Tchaikovsky & Ludwig van Beethoven:
1812 Overture & Wellington’s Victory
10,000 Maniacs:
Blind Man's Zoo
Hope Chest: The Fredonia Recordings 1982-1983
In My Tribe
Love Among the Ruins
MTV Unplugged
Our Time in Eden
The Wishing Chair
Fiorella Terenzi:
Music from the Galaxies
Tomita:
Kosmos
The Planets (Holst)
Snowflakes are Dancing (Debussy)
Brian Tyler:
Frank Herbert’s The Children of Dune (soundtrack)
U2:
Achtung Baby
Joshua Tree
Pop
Rattle & Hum
The Unforgettable Fire
Zooropa
Utopia:
Oops! Wrong Planet!
RA
Swing to the Right
Vangelis:
Blade Runner (soundtrack)
Direct
1492: The Conquest of Paradise (soundtrack)
Various/Collection:
Ambient (A Brief History of Ambient) (2 CD’s)
Forrest Gump (soundtrack) (2 CD’s)
The Big Chill (soundtrack)
Celestial Journey 2
Celtic Twilight
Cruisers 1.0
Gettysburg (soundtrack) (Randy Edelman and others)
Guitar Concertos
Hearts of Space: Universe 3
Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World (sountrack) (Davies & Gordon & Tognetti and others)
MBNT (A Recollection of Proto-Ambient from Hearts of Space)
Miramar Collection 1
More Songs from Gettysburg (soundtrack) Randy Edelman and others)
Musical Evenings in the Captain’s Cabin: Duos for Violin and Cello
Musical Evenings with the Captain, Volume 1
Musical Evenings with the Captain, Volume 2
The Music of Cosmos (soundtrack) (2 CD’s)
O Brother, Where Art Thou (soundtrack)
Roast Beef of Old England
Starflight 1
The Sounds of Murphy Brown (soundtrack)
Synthesizer
Unidentified Floating Ambience
Universe Sampler 92
Whaling and Sailing Songs from the Days of Moby Dick
Heitor Villa-Lobos:
Complete Music for Solo Guitar
Bill Whelan:
Riverdance (soundtrack)
The Who:
Tommy (2 CD’s)
John Williams:
The Indiana Jones Trilogy
Mason Williams and Mannheim Steamroller:
Classical Gas
George Winston:
Forest
Linus & Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi
Plains
Remembrance
Winter into Spring
Steve Winwood:
Arc of a Diver
Back in the High Life
Junction Seven
XTC:
The Big Express
Black Sea
Drums and Wires
English Settlement
Mummer
Nonsuch
Oranges & Lemons
Rag & Bone Buffet
Skylarking
A college discovery that I go back to again and again.
Yes:
90215
The Ladder
Magnification (2 CD’s)
Symphonic Music of Yes
Tales from Topographic Oceans (2 CD’s)
The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection (boxed set)
Union
Out there they are. Strange they are. But one of the greats.
Hans Zimmer:
Blackhawk Down (soundtrack) (with others)
One of my all-time favorite albums. I bought it before I saw the movie, loved it just for the music. After seeing the movie, I love it for the connections with the movie as well.
Another Ansible
It's back! It's up!
As Others Research Us. 'I've always been a fan of H.G. Wells, the 19th/20th century British sci-fi author. You know, he's the guy who penned such classics as "The War of the Worlds," "The Time Machine" and my personal favorite, "1984."' (Greg Bucci, city editor, Mohave Valley Daily News, 13 March) [MRL]
I'm always amazed at the stuff he finds.
It's back! It's up!
As Others Research Us. 'I've always been a fan of H.G. Wells, the 19th/20th century British sci-fi author. You know, he's the guy who penned such classics as "The War of the Worlds," "The Time Machine" and my personal favorite, "1984."' (Greg Bucci, city editor, Mohave Valley Daily News, 13 March) [MRL]
I'm always amazed at the stuff he finds.
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